Downloadable timetable being withdrawn :(
Aug 16, 2016, 1:55 am
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Downloadable timetable being withdrawn :(
Title says it all.
I paid one of my semi-regular visits to the Oneworld timetable page today and saw the following message:
"Effective 1 October 2016 downloadable timetables will no longer be available..."
Any ideas why this might be (other than the increasingly evident customer-unfriendliness of OW) ?
It seems like creating and posting a PDF would be 5 minutes work a month for them... but they can't even be bothered to do that
I paid one of my semi-regular visits to the Oneworld timetable page today and saw the following message:
"Effective 1 October 2016 downloadable timetables will no longer be available..."
Any ideas why this might be (other than the increasingly evident customer-unfriendliness of OW) ?
It seems like creating and posting a PDF would be 5 minutes work a month for them... but they can't even be bothered to do that
Aug 22, 2016, 10:02 pm
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It may be old technology, but I still like the pdf's.
UA http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...-pdf-gone.html
AA http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...timetable.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...-products.html
UA http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...-pdf-gone.html
AA http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...timetable.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...-products.html
Aug 23, 2016, 2:04 am
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A global, system-wide timetable is a pretty unwieldy beast anyway. I can't imagine that more than a handful of people actually download such a timetable.
Besides - it's patchy and incomplete.
I wouldn't like to have been on that A321 from Miami to Amsterdam last Friday!!!
Aug 23, 2016, 5:28 am
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Just need a program that pulls data from the airline systems once every x days and feeds that information into a database and/or PDF generator.
Aug 23, 2016, 10:32 am
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There is also no reason why such an automated process cannot be suspended due to lack of interest.
(You don't actually think that this is currently compiled by hand?)
(You don't actually think that this is currently compiled by hand?)
Sep 6, 2016, 10:34 pm
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I just visited the oneworld timetable page and learned of this change. Very disappointing, although not surprising given AA's change last winter.
I used to start our family trip planning with the timetable document: "Where can we reach on a direct OneWorld flight" followed by "Where can we reach from a OneWorld european gateway that has a direct flight".
It's a lot more work to compile this information by hand using individual searches, so I'll really miss the PDF.
I used to start our family trip planning with the timetable document: "Where can we reach on a direct OneWorld flight" followed by "Where can we reach from a OneWorld european gateway that has a direct flight".
It's a lot more work to compile this information by hand using individual searches, so I'll really miss the PDF.
Oct 4, 2016, 1:55 pm
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The final OW timetable can be downloaded from the QF site http://www.qantas.com/travel/airline...able/global/en
Link has gone from the OW web site
Link has gone from the OW web site
I downloaded via the QF web site on Monday.
Feb 10, 2017, 2:59 pm
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Main thread here http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...withdrawn.html
QF still have a downloadable pdf timetable
QF still have a downloadable pdf timetable
?
Mar 5, 2017, 7:35 pm
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